[Pkg-openldap-devel] r1390 - openldap/trunk/debian

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Monday, October 10, 2011 3:24 PM -0700 Steve Langasek 
<vorlon at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Quanah,
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 09:25:39AM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Sunday, October 09, 2011 1:19 AM +0000 vorlon at alioth.debian.org
>> wrote:
>
>> > 	dh_auto_configure -- $(CONFIG)
>> > -	$(MAKE) -C $(builddir) depend
>
>> Running "make depend" is actually specifically documented as a part
>> of the OpenLDAP build process.  See the INSTALL File shipped with
>> OpenLDAP.
>
> Sure, but does this actually serve any function at all if you aren't doing
> partial builds or iterating builds in the same source tree?  at the start
> of the build, none of the objects are built; at the end all of them are;
> there doesn't seem to be any added value from the 'make depend' run
> AFAICS.
>
> If it really matters I can add it back, but I don't really see the point
> here.

Yeah, for an automated build where changes aren't being made, it should be 
fine.  I'm guessing this won't change in the future. ;)

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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